ICSE solutions for Geography [English] Class 10 ICSE chapter 10 - Industries in India II: Mineral Based Industries [Latest edition]

What do you mean by manufacturing industries?

Why is Iron and Steel a basic industry?

Which are other manufacturing industries, which depend on Iron and Steel industry?

Which industries depend Iron and Steel industry directly?

What are mini Steel plants?

What are Integrated Steel Plants?

Where are the recent Integrated Iron and Steel Plants of India located?

What are the facilities enjoyed by ‘Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Works’?

Where is the Durgapur Steel Plant located?

Which river provides the water facilities for IISCO plant?

From where does it export its finished goods?

Mention any one problem faced by the Iron and Steel Industry in India.

What is Petrochemical Industry. Where is it located?

What is the basic raw material or requirements for Petrochemical industry?

What are the main products of Petrochemical industry?

Name some Heavy Industries.

Where does the Chittaranjan Locomotives industry gets its coal and iron ore.

Where are Integrated Coaches manufactured.

Where is the Rail Coach Factory (RCF).

When and where was the first aircraft industry set up.

Where are Power Generating Equipment’s manufactured.

Which is the modem industry of our country.

What are the main products manufactured by the Electronic Industry?

Where are the main manufacturing centres of Electronic Industry.

Which satellites are built by our Space Technology in support with our Electronic Industry.

State the importance of Electronics in Defence.

Mention one important requirement of the Electronics industry.

Which are the leading centres of software Industry.

Name the section into which an Iron and Steel plant can be divided.

What are the resources necessary for the development of Iron and Steel industry?

Mention any two advantages of Mini Steel Plants.

Briefly write about ‘Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Works’?

What is the ‘speciality’ of Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Plant?

Name the Power Stations that supply electricity to this plant.

Describe any three facilities at the Durgapur Steel Plant.

Mention three advantages that a mini steel plant has over an integrated steel plant.

Where is the Bhilai Steel plant located?

Where does the Bhilai Iron and Steel Industry gets it supply of:
(a) Iron ore        
(b) Coal
(c) Limestone  
(d) Manganese

Describe any three facilities at the Bhilai Steel Plant.

Where is the Bokaro Steel Plant located?

Describe any three facilities at the Bokaro Steel Plant.

What are the facilities enjoyed by the Rourkela Steel Plant?

Where does Rourkela Steel Plant get its raw material.

Mention any two advantages does the Vishakhapatnam Steel Plant have over the other Steel plants in the public sector?

Why are the Iron and Steel Industries concentrated in the Damodar valley region.

What are the advantages of Petrochemical products?

Mention two reasons for the development of the petrochemical industry in India.

Name three units for production of locomotives and coaches under the Ministry of Railways.

What are the four basic requirements of automobile industry?

State the importance of Electronic in the field of:

Entertainment.

State the importance of Electronic in the field of:

Space technology.

What industrial product are the following centres noted for?
(i) Gurgaon
(ii) Perambur
(iii) Chittaranjan.

State two geographical factors which were taken into consideration for the setting Up of the Durgapur Iron and Steel Plant.

Mention any one problem faced by the Iron and Steel Industry in India.

What is the significance of the Electronics Industry in recent times?

What do you mean by the term Industry?

With the help of an example each, explain, how ‘agro based’ industries are different from ‘mineral based’ industries?

What role do mini steel plants play in India’s economy?

Mention the names of some mini Steel plants which are proposed, planned and operating projects.

Name the foreign collaborators of the following Iron and Steel plants:
Bhilai, Rourkela, Durgapur and Bokaro.

How is it advantageous for a mini steel plant to use electric furnaces.

How is it advantageous for a mini steel plant:

not to be located close to the location of the raw material?

What does IISCO stand for and where is it located?

Name the three basic raw materials required by the Steel plant and the places from where it gets each of them.

With reference to the Iron and Steel industry in India, give logical explanation for the following:

The location of this industry is governed by its close proximity to raw material. 

With reference to the Iron and Steel industry in India, give logical explanation for the following:

This industry is not found in western India.

With reference to the Iron and Steel industry in India, give logical explanations for the following:

Most of the ‘Iron and Steel’ plants are ‘public sector undertakings’.

With reference to the Iron and Steel industry in India, give logical explanation for the following:

Mini Steel plants are becoming more popular.

With reference to Tata Iron and Steel Company, answer the following;

When and where was it set up?

With reference to Tata Iron and Steel Company, answer the following;

From where does it gets its supply of Iron-ore, coal, limestone and manganese?

With reference to Visveswaraya Iron and Steel Ltd., answer the following:

Name the state in which it is located.

With reference to Visveswaraya Iron and Steel Ltd., answer the following:

From where does it get iron ore and power supply?

Define the term Heavy Industries,

State the importance of the heavy engineering industries in the industrial development of India.

Mention two main requirements of heavy engineering industries.

Mention the facilities required by the ship-building industry.

How did electronic industry develop in India? What are its diversified field now?

Give two reasons favouring the location of Iron and Steel Plant in north-eastern Deccan.

Explain three reasons as to why there is a large concentration of iron and steel plants in the Chhota Nagpur Region.

Most of the petrochemical units are in Maharashtra or Gujarat. Give two reasons to explain why?

Mention two reasons why petrochemical products are replacing traditional raw materials.

Mini steel plants cause less pollution than integrated steel plants.

Explain why Vishakhapatnam has become an important ship-building centre.

Give reason why the development of ship-building industry has been retarded in India.

Why has the electronics industry grown in importance?

The electronic industry has made an impact on both entertainment and education.

Give two geographical reasons for the growth of IT industries in Bangalore.

Mention two reasons for the importance of the Electronic industry in India’s development.

Give reasons why tree plantation is essential in and around heavy industrial areas.

Natural Materials and Petrochemical Product

What is the difference between a public sector industry and one which is in the private sector? Give an example of an industry in each of the two sectors.

Name some iron and Steel plants centres.

Name the four centres of iron and Steel in the public sector which are located in a single geographical region. With whose collaboration was each one of them set-up?
Or
Name the foreign collaborators of the following Iron and Steel plants:
Bhilai, Rourkela, Durgapur and Bokaro.

Name the Steel projects in the public sector which were not set up with foreign collaboration.

Name the international firm that has helped the Rourkela Steel Plant.

Name the river that supplies water to this plant.

Where is it located?

Name one iron-ore project in Tamil Nadu and one in Karnataka.

Name one Iron and Steel city from each of the four states:
(i) Jharkhand,
(ii) Chhattisgarh,
(iii) Orissa,      
(iv) West Bengal.

Name four petrochemical products.

 Name one important centre of production for the following: 

Diesel Locomotive

Name one important centre of production for the following:

Air Craft

Name one important centre of production for the following:

Ship building

Name one important centre the production of the following:

Tractors

Name one important centre the production of the following:

Electronic goods 

Name one important centre the production of the following:

Petro chemicals

Which city is known as the electronic capital of India?

Name any two major centres of electronic products.

A product of the heavy engineering industry.

Two petrochemical units.

A centre of the silk industry.

A city in India where MIG aircraft are manufactured. 

A centre where railway coaches are manufactured.

The foreign collaborator of the iron and steel plant at Durgapur.

Give One Important Centre of Production of the Following:

Integral Coach Factory (ICF)

Give one important centre of production of the following:

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL)

Give one important centre of production of the following:

The Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT)

Name two cities that have leading Software Companies.

Name the steel plants that were set up with Russian collaboration.

Name a manufacturing centre for the following industries:

Engines for MIG aircraft

Name a manufacturing centre for the following industries:

Diesel locomotives

Name a manufacturing centre for each of the following industries:

Software

Name four important ship-building yards.

Name the Electronic Industries of India.

Name two petrochemical units.